Disseminated Microsporidiosis Due to Encephalitozoon hellem: Pulmonary Colonization, Microhematuria, and Mild Conjunctivitis in a Patient with AIDS

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 415-419

  Weber, Rainer ^a,b   Kuster, Herbert ^a,b   Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a,b   Bryan, Ralph T ^a,b   Schwartz, David A ^a,b   Lüthy, Ruedi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MICROSPORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGE;

EID: 0027242078     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/17.3.415     Document Type: Article

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